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Yahoo! News: Technology News Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:30:00 GMT |
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
(AP)
AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
(AP)
AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
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Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
(AP)
AP - Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs ? to identify criminals using text messages.
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Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband
(AP)
AP - A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
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Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online
(CNET)
CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.
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Lithuania: Attacks Focused on Hosting Company
(PC World)
PC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...
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Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - For personal organization, Apple has focused on the basics with its Address Book and iCal programs, which are included with Mac OS X. These are fine light-duty programs, but they lack power for anything more than simple contact and calendar management. Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative that will appeal to business and power users for whom Apple's offerings are insufficiently powerful or versatile.
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Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless
(PC World)
PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.
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Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner Smartphone Really Is Open
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.
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'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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Lenovo Seeks Prestige in Price-sensitive Market
(PC World)
PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not...
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Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.
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